Roles Quotes · Page 24

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

— Joe Torre

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models.

— Bill Watterson

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

— Joseph Brodsky

Two of the best roles I've ever had have happened in my late 40s.

— Sarah Lancashire

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

— Jennifer Hudson

Role model? I don't have one. I want to be one.

— Kim Him-chan

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

— Anthony Hopkins

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film…

— Kathy Bates

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men…

— Shari Arison

When I was younger, it was hard for me to get roles just because of my color.

— Michaela DePrince

The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

— Kari Matchett

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have…

— Ken Robinson

I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.

— Bronson Pelletier

There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

— Robin Weigert

I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops…

— Terry O'Quinn

I've changed my ways - from what roles I was picking till now. I don't do straight "faith" movies. It's one thing…

— Drew Waters

If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've…

— Gary Hamel

Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a…

— Howard Wilkinson

America has an interesting global role, don't we? It certainly seems to be changing. Our government right now has a softer hand…

— Jim Courier

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could…

— N.D. Wilson

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,…

— Christian Bale

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take…

— Warren Christie

We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health…

— Hillary Clinton

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make…

— Candace Bushnell

There is a real attempt to sanitize the CIA killings and to glorify the CIA and to give it a new face.…

— Medea Benjamin

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of…

— Mark Gevisser

All of a sudden I got a call the night of the first time we were filming and they're like, "Terry, we…

— Terry Crews

There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script.…

— Billy Campbell

But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and…

— Jonathan Kozol

There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose.…

— Vikram Sarabhai

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

— Aasif Mandvi

I've always created otherly gendered roles for myself. Females mostly.

— Cole Escola

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

— Ben Horowitz

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

— Clark Gable

There are roles that you chase sometimes.

— Gary Oldman

I would never do a role where I'm naked in bed with a chick having sex.

— Terry Crews

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

— Pierce Brosnan

There just arent that many Jesus roles around.

— Jeffrey Hunter